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Lessons learned from making the cactus maquette: 1. Minimize the use of paint. It hardens the cloth, making it less pliable. Use a colored base cloth instead. 2. Widen the connecting holes for the branches to allow more wind to flow through them. Mind the
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Testing our cactus cloth sculpture for Materials/Sculpture class today. It stood on its own, yay. Good job to us @tifflafuente! Just a few kinks to iron out when we translate the 2-foot maquette into a 6-foot wind puppet. #cactus #windpuppet #cloth #scu
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Omy it is so nice to be home! I haven't visited my studio since April but I'm happy it still greeted me with a warm welcome tonight. So thankful for this sanctuary. Back to the grind now, ready, get set, go go! #montalut #sanctuary #studio #welcome #h
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Learning how critical it is to prepare the ground in art-making (the same is true for most things in life!). Painting 10 coats of primer on these marine plyboards tonight, sanding in between layers and doing the same on the reverse side. It's the drying
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Work in progress and reference photos. I'm still exploring what subject best fits the constraints of the plate: black and white drawing media, use straight lines only. The bridge is an easy subject given that it made of edges, and it's tricky to approach
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Saw this hanging in the printmaking studio yesterday. It's a monotype print. Process is to pencil in an image at the back of inked paper. I've been looking for ways to move forward with my doodles...this may be it! #printmaking #monotype #doodles #exci
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My first watercolor output: a color chart. I think my new favorite color is bluegreen. Brings me back to Palawan and the sea. #watercolor #color #chart #swatches